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[quote=Anonymous]How does your husband feel about this?  You need to be on the same page as he is.  I personally told my DH before we got married that there would be NO family names as first names.  I was perfectly happy to use family names as middle names, but I was not continuing any legacies.  My DH is the 3rd (sort of, they all have different middle names) and I wasn't going to keep doing that.  It was way too confusing already in the family without adding a 3rd person with the same name.

We had this conversation before we got married, because I knew his family did it this way.  I also felt that, as a woman, we always get shafted since the last name sort of defaults to the father's last name.  I felt I should get more say in their first names since he essentially gets the last name PLUS I changed my last name.  My DH is not a jerk, so he was open to my thoughts on this.

His family wasn't happy.  They made some snide comments in the hospital about it.  But after that, everyone got over it and moved on.  My DH backed me up and understood my point of view, he pushed back on his family when they were upset and we all moved on.

OP: you need to talk to your DH.[/quote]

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